
John Andersen wrote:
I suspect the problem is that first checkbox, - Preview the file. It should probably launch what ever would be used to edit that file, but instead hands it off to wine.
This is still handled by your DE, (KDE in my case) under System settings/ Applications / File Associations / under the treeview of known associations applications / x-wine-extensions (the latter most of these). That says to launch "wine start" wine start operates by inspection of the extension. Given no file, "wine start" simply starts a dos box.
You might be able to add an editor to that list as the first most option, most wine installs include wordpad as a default. or remove that entry all together so that nothing is done with a .vbs file.
It seems like this issue lies halfway between kde (or any other DE) and wine. ARK simply hands it off to KDE, KDE checks its list of applications and hands it off to wine. Wine does that ever windows would do.
Still your problem is expecting the system to handle your errant click intelligently, and apply Linux permissions onto a Windows system. I think that's beyond scope of wine. But I don't know this for sure. Wine is a strange animal, best avoided imho. Thanks for the explanation.
It would be nice to have some kind of warning dialog, if a user tries to start a potential unsafe file from the internet. Is anyone using protection strategies like Software Restriction Policies on Windows machines? May be similar technologies can be adapted for Linux desktops: Use Software Restriction Policies to block viruses and malware Branko Vucinec, 24/10/2014 https://blog.brankovucinec.com/2014/10/24/use-software-restriction-policies-... BTW, I do not think that I am very safe because I use a regular user on my Linux desktop. Most of my data is writable be this user and so crypto trojans can be dangerous enough. A good malware may also use an opened "sudo" session started by the user to become Root. Greetings, Björn -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org